Freedom Hosting Taken Down, Founder Arrested, Users fed Javascript Exploits
Freedom Hosting, a web hosting provider specifically targeting websites in the Tor community, has been shut down, and its owner Eric Eoin Marques arrested in Ireland on charges of facilitating the distribution of online child pornography. Marques is now sitting in jail, denied bail while the Irish courts determine the validity of an extradition request....
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15 March 2016 – Several new Tor de-anonymizing techniques have come to light in the past few days, which primarily exploit old javascript injection bugs to identify Tor users uniquely with mouse movement patterns and metrics. Jose Carlos Norte published these new exploits on his blog last week, shortly after discovering them. The security hole enabling these exploits is a ten-month-old bug that was unfortunately never addressed by the Tor developers. Until these bugs are resolved, oppressive regimes and nations that frown upon the use and trading of cryptocurrency can easily track privacy....
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